THE charity Help For Heroes has been swamped with donations, leading to its website crashing, after Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered while wearing one of its tops. The popular military support group was deluged with calls, donations and demands for
THE owners of Llanwern steelworks plunged into the red today with losses of £840 million after wiping £1 billion off the value of its European arm. The overall post-tax figure for Tata Steel represents a sharp fall from the previous year's £642
BLAENAU Gwent AM Alun Davies has said the creation of a new £11.5 million station and railway in Ebbw Vale town centre will create important transport links with not only the rest of Wales, but Europe too. The Welsh Government’s finance minister
LEICESTERSHIRE'S battle to salvage a draw from their LV= County Championship Division Two game against Glamorgan was boosted by bad weather and their best opening stand of the season at Grace Road. A total of 54.4 overs were lost on a rain-hit
GWENT'S former world super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe believes Carl Froch will prove too strong for Mikkel Kessler on Saturday night. Froch and Kessler go head-to-head at the O2 Arena in a mouthwatering rematch which promoter Eddie Hearn
WALES' health minister has announced a shake-up of the country's ambulance service. Mark Drakeford told AMs today that the service is to be clinically focused with the Welsh Government to publish data on a wider range of response times than just
GWENT Police are appealing for help in finding a man who has breached his licence conditions after being released from prison in May 2013. Dafydd Merkel, 27, was serving a 45 month sentence for burglary. He was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court
ONE of Torfaen’s best-known authors has won an award for his newest collection of stories, Tree of Leaf and Flame. Daniel Morden, brother of Newport East MP Jessica Morden, was announced the Welsh Books Council’s winner of the 2013 Tir na n-Og
In the second of our features with Territorial Army troops on exercise in Cyprus, WILL BAIN meets three Gwent men who are dedicated to serving their country. NEWPORT’S Steve Broderick, Ian Fife and Jamie Meredith have dedicated their adult lives
NEWPORT’s new mayor says he wants to raise money and awareness for a UK cancer charity. Councillor Cliff Suller, for Caerleon, was elected by city councillors to be the city’s first citizen for 2013/14 at a packed mayor-making ceremony in the civic
THE owner of an Ystrad Mynach off-licence was ordered to pay more than £1,300 after selling four cans of Strongbow to a 15-year-old. Caerphilly council’s trading standards team organised a test purchase with the girl entering the TR Group Premier
PARENTS are calling on Gwent councils and the Welsh Government to provide a date when details will be released over the future of Welshmedium secondary provision in south-east Wales. Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Pontypool is Gwent’s only Welsh-medium
4:27pm Dave Sharman, Bron Afon’s director of property (landlord of the property on Teynes) said: “One of our contactors was carrying out a repair on the roof of a house in Teynes when the fire started. We will be speaking to
A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was the victim of an attempted robbery in Rogerstone early this morning as she walked to school. Police officers were called to the Rogerstone area following a report of an attempted robbery on a footpath off Tregwilym Road this
MAY I say a big thank-you to Newport MIND for all the help they have given me in the last four months. They are a superb organisation dealing with mental health and the workers there are extremely humane. My appreciation to Hilary and her team
WAS any research done by Torfaen council regarding the usage of the Pontypool Active Living Centre (PALC) car park on a Sunday? Who also took the decision to close the brand-new car park next to the PALC car park on a Sunday? I ask because on Sunday
SO Gez Kirby says Caerphilly council leadership has apologised for past nefarious activities, so that’s all right then, but besides the behind-closed-door decision to award huge pay rises to executives and besides being illegal the rises still stand
THERE has been a lot of criticism of the new “improved” railway station at Newport, much of it well deserved, in my opinion; however, the filthy state of the toilets on the platform is the reason I write this letter. I recently had cause to
AS A daily reader of your Argus, I am writing in regard to the asbestos in Cwmcarn High School. Surely this money spent on removing the asbestos in the whole school is a waste, as the building must be in urgent need of repair, so how much is that
FOLLOWING Blaenau Gwent Council’s decision to withdraw funding from Brynmawr’s Market Hall Cinema in March, it is hoped the cinema will be handed over to a local community group. Council officers say they have been working closely with members
THANK YOU for publishing my letter, which was designed to thank everyone who has helped the club restore league football to Newport. As I said, they are so numerous they would fill Bisley Stand. I did mention all directors, past and present, and
HEALTH bosses agreed a five-figure compensation settlement with a Bristol man after staff at Newport’s Royal Gwent Hospital failed to spot he had broken a middle finger in a cycling accident. Graphic designer James Symonds feared he would never
IT MAY be spring in Newport, but at the city’s Riverfront Theatre they are already gearing up for Christmas. The theatre has announced that tickets for this year’s pantomime, Beauty and The Beast, are now on sale at the box office. Pantomime
POP star Suggs, TV star and former footballer Jamie Redknapp, and his wife, Louise, are the latest in a long line of celebrities to join the Raise Your Hands For Luca campaign. They have joined the likes of footballer Diego Maradona, Leigh Halfpenny
Inspired by Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, David H Bell and Rob Bowman’s jazzed up version, Hot Mikado fuses jazz, soul and swing to liven up a classic score for a modern audience. In the hands of WAWWA, the musical youth, this translates into an evening
TORFAEN’S exciting summer events season kicks off next month with the third annual Big Event at Cwmbran boating lake. Thousands of people flocked to the lake and parks last year for a day of fun, music and sport. This year’s event takes place
THE chairman of two Newport mosques joined others today in condemning yesterday's attack in Woolwich. Manzoor Ahmed, chairman of the interim committee of Newport's Jamia Mosque and Harrow Road Mosque, said they are to organise a fundraising walk
NURSERIES could be established in six of Newport’s primary schools. The city is looking to set up nursery schools at Clytha, Glasllwch, High Cross, Mount Pleasant and Malpas Park primary schools and at St Michael’s RC Primary School following a
THE WELSH health minister said today that uptake of the MMR vaccine in Gwent was too low. In a statement, Minister Mark Drakeford, said there is “particular concern” for the Gwent area, where MMR uptake in the “hardest hit” age group, 10 to 18
YOU may have noticed we have been publishing a full-page reader survey in the Argus for the last couple of weeks. The survey is part of some reader research we are undertaking to find out more about what you like and don’t like about the Argus.
A TEACHING union said it is disappointed the Welsh Government plans to introduce fines to tackle persistent truancy in schools. Welsh education minister Leighton Andrews intends to introduce the penalty, but it will be up to councils from September
A KEY Welsh Government decision on the future of plans for a Specialist and Critical Care Centre (SCCC) to treat Gwent’s sickest patients will be delayed until the autumn. Gwent health bosses hoped the outline business case (OBC) for a £270 million
AROUND £2,000-worth of sound equipment was stolen during a break-in at a Newport hospice. This CCTV still appears to show a man placing a bucket over a camera at St David’s Hospice Care’s day centre on Blackett Avenue, minutes before a burglary
GWENT’S six MPs stuck to their guns in the House of Commons on Tuesday, with most voting for gay marriage and two against. Newport West MP Paul Flynn, Newport East MP Jessica Morden, Blaenau Gwent’s Nick Smith and Islwyn’s Chris Evans voted with
THE statue of Gwent sporting legend Ken Jones has finally been fixed in place. The statue was unveiled in front of more than 100 people on March 28 in Blaenavon, but was taken down just two hours later. The statue to the Wales and Newport
MORE than 50 parents and children waved placards and chanted “save our school” outside Newport Civic Centre yesterday afternoon in a demonstration against council plans to merge two primary schools. Yesterday was the final day of Newport council
I REMEMBER a Premiership encounter between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff at Eugene Cross Park in March, 2007. The Steelmen were flying high and chasing the title but came a cropper against the Blue and Blacks. The visitors included several young players
A FIRM dealing with the collapse of the Newport company that built the Olympic Aquatic Centre roof is speaking to three potential buyers that could save up to 75 jobs, the Argus has learned. But Stephen Hall, assistant director of Rowecord’s administrators
THE actions of Delon Armitage when scoring the try that won the Heineken Cup for Toulon were inexcusable. The England full-back, who has a long list of misdemeanors, waved goodbye to Clermont’s fly-half Brock James while racing over the whitewash
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are on the hunt for a new scrum coach after the shock departure of Iestyn Thomas. The 36-year-old former Wales prop has quit Rodney Parade to pursue a career outside rugby. Pontypool native Thomas, who won 33 caps, joined
COUNCILLORS voted to pay for much needed repairs to Chepstow’s Drill Hall after a heated two hour meeting of the town council. At one point the mayor of Chepstow put his head in his hands as he tried to spur on warring councillors to make a decision
WALES’ young guns have been told in no uncertain terms that they have a big responsibility to maintain the standards set by those that are away with the British and Irish Lions. The Six Nations champions head to Japan next week for two-Test tour
CHEPSTOW could see hundreds of homes built over the next 13 years, bringing with it a population boost. An estimated 581 homes being built by 2026 could increase the town’s population by more than eight per cent, from 16,200 to 17,594. A total
WALLABIES winger Digby Ioane is on Australia’s growing casualty list as they continue to struggle with injuries ahead of the forthcoming three-match Test series with the British and Irish Lions. According to the Australian Rugby Union, the Reds
